Hi, Although I understand I'm probably very late in the beta process I thought I still share some thoughts regarding the installation process of beta2.
I did a server installation using boot.iso. First thing I noticed is the fact that even with the current ~200MB boot.iso a shell is only made available on tty2 very late in the setup process. Are there any technical reasons why a shell cannot be made available earlier in the installation? With the 10MB boot.isos for older releases I reckoned space was an issue, but that can hardly be the reason not to pack a shell in a 200MB boot image. Since my box has 2 nics I got the option to choose which one to use for the URL installation. However, the nics were only identified by MAC address. This might be useful in case of two identical nics - still without a shell it's hard to check which is which if you didn't write that down -, but when having different nics an identification by manufacturer/type or used driver is probably easier for most people. Perhaps you could show both identifiers or add a toggle option? When providing a url you need to provide the exact url or the loading of install.img will fail. This has been a nuisance for years. Adding a way to browse through the file tree of the server you picked would be a very nice addition. I noticed when creating a custom parition layout the first (/) partition created does not end on a cylinder boundary (as reported by fdisk). Perhaps I forgot to uncheck the option "resizable" and is this the cause. Also I noticed some mention of odd partition boundaries while browsing the archives, so it could well be this has been discussed in length already. Package selection using the standard installation sets now uses radio buttons instead of check boxes. This makes it impossible to f.e. choose Web Server and Database Server at the same time. I understand the option Minimal Install vs. the others is an either/or option, but for the other package sets it should be possible to select more than one without having to customize. As said, I know I'm pretty late in the process to make these comments, but perhaps they can be of some use for later releases ;) . Regards, Leonard. -- mount -t life -o ro /dev/dna /genetic/research _______________________________________________ rhelv6-beta-list mailing list rhelv6-beta-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rhelv6-beta-list
